Massachusetts became the first state in the US to outlaw de-vocalizing of animals on July 21, 2010. De-vocalization of animals is an exceptionally dangerous procedure commonly referred to as "De-barking."

Thursday June 2, 2011, 12:58 am
I must still be living in the dark ages, I honestly did not know that this was being done to our four legged friends, how could anyone actualy do this to an animal, my heart cries for those that this has been done too, many prayers to them, thank you Cher for this information, aho.

Thursday June 2, 2011, 2:34 pm
Ludicrous!! Why anyone would want their dog's vocal chords removed is over my head!! Why even adopt a dog if you don't want it to bark? Thnx Cher, I gladly signed and noted...I'm sorry it didn't make front page :(

Thursday June 2, 2011, 8:36 pm
Signed. This is an unnatural procedure and uncalled for. Why is this such a big deal? Animals (our pets) need to speak, and think of all the people animals have saved worldwide (service animals/war dogs) merely by their senses, training and notifying the handlers with their BARKS! Get real people.....ridiculous idea of devocalizing animals......how would you feel if for some reason your voice box was removed, whether by disease, or let's say your own punishment for doing such inhumane acts to the animals. Just imagine the feeling of being helpless and not being able to VOICE YOUR OPINION......JUST IMAGINE...OR TO CALL FOR HELP.

Thursday June 2, 2011, 10:59 pm
Signed on 11/18/10. If people think it's such a wonderful procedure, that is no big deal for the dog to go through, then let them volunteer themselves as well.. This and declawing, are both blatant forms of animal abuse.

Friday June 3, 2011, 5:22 pm
There is something already being understood by some in the science area as well as some in intelligence about communication which includes voice and is not limited to it. There is something that life is trying to accomplish with the removal of barking which relates to the desire for peace, however, this is not going to reveal peace. Removing the source of pressure that results in an animal saying something (this is the same as a human)is what is necessary and that pressure is coming from what is being understood into their organism from the information (seen and unseen information, heard and unheard waves) in human being environments. An animal and a human says something audibly when there is pressure that is understood into the organism. Removing an animals barking capacity does not remove the pressure and the communication will be understood through another "area" to life around it who are doing what they do not appreciate doing regardless. Relative to what information that life is brought into about this, the life around the animal and other life that used itself with it, will be understanding discomfort (pressure and separations) without knowing why. This is sort of like what humans would understand as the impact and interaction of expressive emotional communication which is received as a very real interacting communication from and to areas of life using itself out of unity. If we want to talk about what always happens within living areas that move into unity and perpetual existences, communication is never verbal or integrative and it is understood to life using itself together through a process similar to an omniscience capacity. In other words, this would be saying, "I understand exactly what you are telling me about within an emotion that is appreciated."

When life does things it experiences as interesting to them in appreciation to the non human entity coordinating, ordering and causing everything, pressure goes down in the way it is supposed to.

Barking is an example of life providing something that is does not love to provide that is not in unity with life experiencing an ability to do what it can continue to do (peace) and there is a lot of these kinds of provisions occurring in certain human being areas (with human and animal life and in nature). The pressure is the place to understand how life can do something different toward never having to do different again.

What always happens is interesting and when life is understanding in divided interest areas they get a part of a desire for what always happens combined with confusion.